As long as you focus on what's important to you, you will be a success, and true, through and through

These are the things that are important to you.  They are not necessarily things that you will do or have, they tend to be things that intangible, things that you can't see or hold.

When we do things in line with our values, we feel more confident, are able to make better decisions and things just feel right.  The great thing about values is that they are unique to every person, like our fingerprints. There's no right or wrong here; they're your values, you choose them because they are important to you, and when you are doing things in line with your values, you will do your best work, be truly you.

And if you're finding it tricky to uncover your values or put a name to them, check out my Values List below these questions to give you a helping hand...

Remember on the video I talked about money and a team of people?  And how if I wanted to I could fit them in a wheelbarrow because they were tangible, real things I could see or hold?   Once you have come up with a list of your values, do the wheelbarrow test on them! 

So as I mentioned in the video, by asking ourselves 'what do they give me', we come up with our values.  It might be that you need to dig deep and keep asking yourself.  If you are struggling with this one, think back to a time when whatever you value was happening and use the example to keep asking, what did this give me?  

For example, if we look at valuing our team at work, we might look back to a meeting or a project we were all working on, and think about what was happening at the time and why it just felt right.  Maybe there was that feeling of 'we're all in it together' - that belonging, or perhaps it was because there was lots of laughter and jokes - so perhaps fun is one of your values.